For all you knick fans, I had to share what I got in the (snail) mail today. A birthday card came with a great hi-res photo of (x), and a personal message inside from my Dad. Came from http://www.nba.com/greetingcards – looks like you can do any team, player, etc. – they have a huge selection if great licensed photos. Get them before the holiday rush for a 25% discount!

Give me a break people. This is an NBA franchise. This isn’t some legacy pledging a fraternity. Dollars outweighed desire in this case.

What we need right now is good will, and good vibes. Bringing in the son of the “The Franchise” is good will, and he is only going to get better. Will he be an all star? I tend to doubt it but who am I to say?

What I can say is that while I appreciate that Donnie is a man of his word, he said “no buy outs” and he means it. We have dead weight on the roster, and I am a big fan of rewarding effort and those who are deserving.

This kid deserved a spot that is currently occupied by a center who is so unprofessional he does not bother to show up in shape. That is like me going into the office without my laptop. His body is his “tool” Eddy gets paid a lot of money, stop eating Twinkies and hit the Gym BEFORE the season. Prove us wrong, we think you were a bad pick up, that you have no heart (no pun intended), and that you will NEVER amount to anything. So far you have made that case for us.

Jerome James? yeah. I do not even need to go there.

This cut really ruined my week, and I was optimistic about the new regime. Neither the coach or gm were my first choices for the job but I bought in and supported both. Now it is YOUR turn too to show us fans something. Give us something here, show us a move that says “We are getting there” I do not want you to rush to make bad deals, but make smart decisions, make moves that make sense.

So far you have not really done anything except pay starting money to a life time back up, draft a kid with the back of a 40 year old, give away a wasted first round pick on a second round player (Balkman) for nothing.

Come on. Give me something, don’t make a dumb move liek I said but make a move.

You could have started by keeping Patrick Ewing Jr. Roberson might be able to shoot, he was able in summer league play. After that? Not so much. You know what? There are LOTS of shooters to be had that can provide that level of consistency. The waiver wires, Foreign markets, and D League is full of them. There is only one Patrick Ewing Junior.

You dropped the ball here, I am sorry to say.

I know things have not gone well but everyone’s jumping on Walsh and D’Antoni unfairly. The season hasn’t even started!

To calm down I checked out the internet for what the consensus would be on the choice to can Patrick Ewing Jr. over Anthony “shoot blanks first and ask questions later” Roberson or Jeromes “BIG HEIST” James.

The consensus is pretty overwhelmingly against this latest decision by the entity a fellow blogger dubbed Waltoni. Actually come to think of it this entity is a three headed hydra which once and for all disproves the theory that two-in this instance three- heads are better than one. This monstrosity, the terrifying Manegerial creature I dubbed Waldoltoni, (frightening combination of Senile Donny Walsh, Penny Pinching James Dolan, and Offense First and Last Mike []’antoni) initiated a Garden coup to exit a young player who represent’s a link to the Franchises defensively inspired fighting spirit of yore. The move also ousted a talent who might be able to help the franchise addresses several possible pressing needs that are more glaring than adding another gun to what many here believed was a pretty fully loaded offensive entity.

Although Ewing Jr. stands at only about 6’8, he demonstrated during the preseason an ability to be able to play bigger than his stated size as exemplified in his ability to block shots, rebound, and play above the rim where many a shot of our other fowards- Z-Bo, Lee and even Curry often get sent back. Moreover Ewing Jr. comes in at about 240 pounds and possesses a 40 inch verticle leap coupled with a relentless energy that could have only been passed down from a legendary father. Ewing surely played bigger than the two pouting and lazy oaths that will now continue to occupy the Knicks roster and bench while creating pot holes and cracks in the flooring of MSG. Also D’antoni has relied on a small but combative front court lineup of David Lee, and Zach Randolph. In addition D’antoni has suggested that he would utilize the rail thin and brittle Jared Jefferies as a center in his system. Therefore the argument that Ewing is to small to play in the post for the Knicks plainly fails to recognize the coaching staff reliance on smaller but more active players on the front lines and in general.

Ewing Jr. also would have provided young and cheap fronline depth that the knicks could have used and surely lack- Jefferies injury, Chandlers Knee issues, Curry’s and James ineffectiveness in []’toni’s system, Z-bo & Lee’s possible exit via trade, and Rose age.

Yet, Walsh’s stated reason for keeping Roberson over Ewing Jr. was that he needed to address a need namely shooting.

That excuse is as naked as the Emperors new clothes were to the young child in the crowd telling the emperor he was naked. The Knicks currently have a roster of players capable of shootng the ball- Robinson, Crawford, Gallinari, Richardson, Randolph, Marbury and to a lesser extent Duhon. Yet again the managerial monstrosity of Waldoltoni chooses to pinch pennies and slight the defensive side of the ball. Waldoltoni chose to keep a shooter who shot 20 percent generally and only 25 percent beyond the arch to sure up it’s shooting, when more glaring needs- unstated by either an incompetent, disengenouse or outright senile- Donnie Walsh went unmentioned.

At the end of this day the Blogger Lives mantra that the mask on the Knicks recievership has come off cannot ring more true.

I strangely get a feeling of a soldier going out to war with an abundant arsenal of weapons but that has failed to even strap on a either a bulletproofvest (defense in general) or a blast shield (shot blocking) in a machine gun laden warzone.

This to me spells TROUBLE when the big guns in body armor come out to play

They are not looking at fan appeal. Donnie this ain’t Indiana. We want talented players with appeal that have potential.

No reason to keep one more guard when we need another forward. Especially if Chandler is going to be our primary power forward and he is looking like he is returning to his knee problems. Lee and Randoplh defense make you want to throw up. We have no shot blocker.

I want to go the record and say Gallinari will be a waisted pick at 6 overall or for the lack of a better word bust. He was not worth the 6h pick and will ride the bench most of the year. I would have went with Anthony Randolph from LSU. We need a new center and JJ snacks is not the answer.

Lets talk about Isiah’s suicide attempt. This move is depressing…

You guys that are abandoning the team now are total sellouts. I bet you had a Troy Aikman poster in the 90’s. Why don’t you root for Dwight Howard and go to McDonalds and scratch his game pieces.

The Knicks have done some bad things and you can’t say this one ranks even close to the bottom. Meanwhile, I cannot wait until Wednesday.